Chapter 99: The Vampires Crypt - V (2/2)

"So this is why you're always first on the leaderboard?" Alvira asked "You've played all of this before"

"Well, I haven't done any of the quests before The story is new toin such a way that he wasn't accused of cheating "The alpha test was just everyonea bunch of features out like casting s"

"All I really did during the alpha was play with ic and try learn how to do a flip" Merlin continued downplaying it, "So it's probably just that I had s at first, and that eventually soblled intothe top spot"

"What about Snow and scythe guy?" Alvira asked, she see that Merlin had an obvious advantage, even though he tried toit "Were they in the alpha too?"

"No, no The alpha was just the developers, I was only invited to play around a couple ti to downplay it "Rather, those two are surprisingly good at this It took s, but those two are naturals"

Alvira seemed content with Merlin's answer, but he couldn't help but think he went the wrong way about it now Even if they were better behaved than the others, they were still part of the upper class and members of fa especially bad when it came to their inferiority co these people out" Merlin changed the subject, "There is probably a set of keys around so with other loot"

The group started searching around, there was a couple weapons laying around and a few trinkets, but nothing Merlin could really use or wanted A couple of the vials of strange liquids glowed faintly, indicating that they were lootable, but nobody wanted to touch theerous, so Merlin decided he'd take thee liquid he looted, the information on it was hidden and required an appraisal skill

The group eventually found a ring of keys for the cages The keys were hidden in the pile of dust and were only found once Nora broke her eerie silence and began angrily kicking the dust around She see her frustrations, but she still didn't talk much

With the keys in hand, Merlin started unlocking all the cages that had people in them They were all still a delirious state, and it was likely that they would snap out of it eventually

Zankoku so an NPC would wake them up, similar to how Merlin told theht reduction in kares were unlocked, and the group slowly helped the them on the forest floor outside the abandoned church

Once Merlin carried the last captive out of the building, he received several notification es

「You have solved an issue caused by a strange phenos" has been updated」

"A strange phenomenon" Merlin mumbled those words out loud It seemed familiar, and then it clicked, the shattered sky quest had a si

He wasn't completely certain if this was related to that quest, but it made sense to him It did warn that it would increase the possibility of strange pheno around him, but he wasn't entirely sure what thatcleanse on the entire party while they spoke about what to do next Eventually the NPCs started snapping out of their drug-fuelled haze and slowly regained the ability to think A lot of the NPCs seemed terrified, but calmed dohen reassured that they were safe

One of the NPCs, a frail looking wo out what Merlin assu every face crowded around, the NPC approached Merlin's party She started asking questions about her sister, saying that perhaps theyout descriptions

Everyone slowly realised who she was talking about, Merlin decided that he was going to be the one to go back into the crypt He came back up a few minutes later with the pale corpse of a woman in his arms, and a thick stack of rolled up paper in his hand

When the wo, she broke down in tears Merlin gently placed the corpse on the forest floor, and the woman fell to her knees beside it Everyone stood around silently as the wohtly in her arms